A few days ago my computer started crashing if I played on it for a long period of time. The actual 'crash' would come in the form of the monitor freezing and a random screeching sound would emit constantly from my headset, it would stay this way until I would press the reset/power button.
The PC specs are in my sig.
I've wanted to format into another copy of windows as it was, so I did it because I thought it might solve the problem but the problem persisted. (switched back from Vista Ultimate 64bit to XP Pro 32bit)
I have no idea what would cause such a problem, as a normal CPU problem should be in the form of a blue screen (unstable) or the PC simply reseting itself (overheating) and graphics card problems should be artifacts (unstable/overheat) or VPU-recovery/black-screen (overheat), but this is something I've never even heard of before!
I've done a stress test on the CPU (E7200) and it wouldn't go higher then 55C/131F on 3.85GHz, and about 46C/115F on stock value bios which still didnt fix the problem.
The graphics card however, an HD4870 512MB with a Zalman GV-1000 and a few more fans around it, has shown some strange results:
The pictures shows the analysis of GPUz while graphics card is stressed by rthdribl.
the problem is, I think its obvious - the VDDC #1/2/3 temps reaching as high as 115C/240F!
ambient temps are high and I would say they're atleast 25C/77F.
The problem in short:
When playing games for a long period the computer sometimes gets stuck, the picture on the monitor freezes and the computer stops responding, a screeching noise comes out of the headset constantly afterwards. This stays the same until I reset/shut-down the PC.
A short check showed the graphics card VDDCs reach 115C/240F and higher on load.
The questions:
1) What are the VDDC Slaves?
2) Can this be the cause of this strange problem?
3) Is this dangerous to the graphics card?
4) If it is indeed not a normal situation and/or the cause of the problem, how can it be fixed?
thanks in advance , this is extremely annoying...
The PC specs are in my sig.
I've wanted to format into another copy of windows as it was, so I did it because I thought it might solve the problem but the problem persisted. (switched back from Vista Ultimate 64bit to XP Pro 32bit)
I have no idea what would cause such a problem, as a normal CPU problem should be in the form of a blue screen (unstable) or the PC simply reseting itself (overheating) and graphics card problems should be artifacts (unstable/overheat) or VPU-recovery/black-screen (overheat), but this is something I've never even heard of before!
I've done a stress test on the CPU (E7200) and it wouldn't go higher then 55C/131F on 3.85GHz, and about 46C/115F on stock value bios which still didnt fix the problem.
The graphics card however, an HD4870 512MB with a Zalman GV-1000 and a few more fans around it, has shown some strange results:
The pictures shows the analysis of GPUz while graphics card is stressed by rthdribl.
the problem is, I think its obvious - the VDDC #1/2/3 temps reaching as high as 115C/240F!
ambient temps are high and I would say they're atleast 25C/77F.
The problem in short:
When playing games for a long period the computer sometimes gets stuck, the picture on the monitor freezes and the computer stops responding, a screeching noise comes out of the headset constantly afterwards. This stays the same until I reset/shut-down the PC.
A short check showed the graphics card VDDCs reach 115C/240F and higher on load.
The questions:
1) What are the VDDC Slaves?
2) Can this be the cause of this strange problem?
3) Is this dangerous to the graphics card?
4) If it is indeed not a normal situation and/or the cause of the problem, how can it be fixed?
thanks in advance , this is extremely annoying...
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